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You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
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The business of polishing my shoes satisfies my soul.
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Illness must be considered to be as natural as health.
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He knew the truth and was looking for something better.
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How did money ever happen? What's it mean? What's it for?
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Everything begins with inhale and exhale, and never ends.
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The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
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I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.
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Don't forget that some things count more than other things.
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All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.
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Nothing has ever been more sure-fire than truth and integrity.
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It is the heart of man that I am trying to imply in this work.
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I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.
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I believe in my work and am eager for others to know about it.
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The purpose of my life is to put off dying as long as possible.
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Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.
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All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.
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Art comes from the world, belongs to it, can never escape from it.
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If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man.
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I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.
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If I want to do anything, I want to speak a more universal language.
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The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.
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At his best, things do not happen to the artist; he happens to them.
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I began to visit Armenia as soon as I had earned the necessary money.
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You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.
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Each person belongs to the environment, in his own person, as himself.
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There was a touch of anxiety in the whole human race about its future.
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It seemed to me that I had no right to burn a book I hadn't even read.
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My superficial manners stink and my profound manners are almost as bad.
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What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
William Saroyan
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Born:
August 31, 1908
Died:
May 18, 1981
(aged 72)
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